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Regularity of Second-Order Elliptic PDEs in Spectral Barron Spaces

Analysis of PDEs 2026-02-24 v1 Machine Learning Numerical Analysis Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We establish a regularity theorem for second-order elliptic PDEs on Rd\mathbb{R}^{d} in spectral Barron spaces. Under mild ellipticity and smallness assumptions, the solution gains two additional orders of Barron regularity. As a corollary, we identify a class of PDEs whose solutions can be approximated by two-layer neural networks with cosine activation functions, where the width of the neural network is independent of the spatial dimension.

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@article{arxiv.2602.19381,
  title  = {Regularity of Second-Order Elliptic PDEs in Spectral Barron Spaces},
  author = {Ziang Chen and Liqiang Huang and Mengxuan Yang and Shengxuan Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.19381},
  year   = {2026}
}